Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists

10.1163/9789004258907_013

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Chapter Summary

Born into a patrician family of old lineage, traditionally involved with Venetian political life, the young Federico Badoer took an active part in the cultural circle that met in the house of Domenico Venier in sixteenth-century Venice. The earliest documents, a letter dated September 1557, and the first constitution of the Academia Venetiana explicitly presented the circle as a body whose primary purpose was to set up an academic publishing house. The publishing programme of the Academia Venetiana was presented to the public in 1558 through its first edition. This was the Somma delle opere, a 32-leaved folio listing 631 works subdivided into 22 categories. The programme of the Somma matched the ideas expressed by Badoer in a letter addressed to Andrea Lippomano, a text that can be considered his own manifesto on the proper education for a future politician.